Ensino médio integrado: em busca da utopia da formação integrada

Abstract

This research aimed at understanding the construction and development of integrated high school in Brazil. The investigation is justified by the need to overcome the duality that historically permeates Brazillian education, in which the dominant elites receive a differentiated education compared to the proletarian class. With regard to methodological aspects, the research is characterized as a bibliographic revision in which scientific articles, theses, official documents and books written by renowned authors who research the thematic in Brazil were used. The databases used were Google Scholar and Scielo to search for scientific articles, the Theses and Dissertations Catalog by Capes to find theses and, also, several institutional and governmental websites to find laws, decrees and documents dealing with the topics. We understand that integrated high school based on the assumptions of polytechnic and omnilateral training presents itself as an important element to overcome the dichotomous scenario observed in Brazilian education – enabling the human emancipation of students – as long as it follows the paths proposed for this course modality and does not submit to the rules of the capitalist system.